Favorite films

Pinned reviews

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  Nope 2022

  ★★★★½ Watched 13 Aug 2022

  A spectacular spectacle that’s about as meta as you can possibly get whilst keeping that metatextuality in the subtext. Brings back a lot I learnt during an extra-curricular film module I took at uni last year. Since its inception, cinema has been all about the spectacle; early films would be shown at carnivals, showing people things they’d never seen before, from the mundane wonder of seeing pictures move to magic tricks made possible through the camera trickery possible with the…

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  Moon 2009

  ★★★★ Watched 15 Jul 2020

  “If I ever meet myself, I’ll hit myself so hard I won’t know what’s hit me.”

  - Zaphod Beeblebrox

Recent reviews

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  The Monkey 2025

  ★★★½ Rewatched 16 Mar 2025

  Second time around kinda cemented my feelings on this. A great first half that slowly looses the plot whilst still keeping the fun. At its best, it’s a darkly hilarious film with a heart for its characters and how we must face the unpredictability of death with our heads held straight, but by the end, that idea is sort’ve lost when the writers forget how to write a genuinely tender scene. I thought Hal’s relationship with his kid was specifically…

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  MaXXXine 2024

  ★★★½ Watched 13 Mar 2025

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

Popular reviews

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  Cairo Station 1958

  ★★★½ Watched 03 Nov 2020 1

  r/Lettterboxd Film Club #18 - Cairo Station
  Theme: African Cinema

  Even if it hasn’t aged all that great over the years, Cairo Station is still a good, enjoyable film. Youssef Chahine gives a great performance as the shy, crazed Qinawi, and at the same time directs the films pretty well, showing Qinawi’s anger and madness in pretty neat ways. It is a bit bland story-wise, and I’m not really one for romances or dramas like this, so I wasn’t too…

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  Poor Things 2023

  ★★★★½ Watched 04 Nov 2023

  Leeds International Film Festival 2023: Poor Things

  Been excited for this one since I saw the first trailer (and was fascinated with it even before then, what with the great cast and fascinating synopsis seeming perfect for director Yorgos Lanthimos) and was able to catch it as part of LIFF, and wow, this could be Lanthimos’s magnum opus. The film is akin to a modern David Copperfield with its grandiose story, enigmatic protagonist and colourful characters, albeit this film has…